Estrogen has a host of important health benefits. The sex hormone plays a critical role in reproductive health, sexual development, muscle development, and bone strength. In women, it also helps with ...

Estrogen causes hormonal birth controls’ most serious and rare side effects, such as stroke and heart attack. The hormone is also at the root of some of the contraceptives’ less serious but still ...

Infertility or reduced fertility is a common problem in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1 out of 5 women are unable to get pregnant after a year ...

Until about 20 years ago, physicians routinely prescribed the hormones estrogen and progestin for women after menopause, when levels of both of these hormones decline. This seemed like a logical ...

Estrogen is an important naturally-occurring hormone. It’s key to women’s sexual and reproductive development. It may support heart-healthy and anti-cancer effects for women and men. Estrogen levels ...

Estrogen is a group of hormones (there are three types: estradiol, estriol, and estrone) that helps regulate the menstrual cycle and has an impact on various parts of the body, including the urinary ...

This article was reviewed by Julia Switzer, MD, FACOG. Estrogen is one of the primary female hormones, and it serves an important function in both reproductive and overall health. Estrogen supports ...

It's one of the pandemic's prolonged mysteries: Why have men died of Covid at higher rates than women? Covid's fatality rate for men was 1.7 times higher, on average, than the rate for women across 38 ...

Feb 16 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer ...

Some cosmetics companies are marketing estrogen-infused face creams and serums to people in menopause. Do they work? Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Erica Sweeney Q: I’ve ...

If a woman is being treated with topical estrogen for atrophic vaginitis, does she need to use a progestin (synthetic progesterone) to protect the uterus? The best clinical practice at this point in ...

Vaginal estrogen therapy does not increase the risk for recurrence in women with hormone receptor (HR)–negative breast cancer or in those with HR–positive tumors concurrently treated with tamoxifen ...